One of your more naive posts, hardly worth responding to but somebody might afford it some credibility.
Those axis-labelled countries do have missiles, and they're getting better ones all the time. A suicidal despotic regime is not hard to imagine after 911. Perhaps more importantly, it doesn't even have to be a country in order to launch a missile; it might be al Qaeda or another terrorist organization, firing from a remote jungle somewhere. Retaliation isn't a deterrent if OBL or an NGO can launch a missile from a remote location. The "hiding" of a missile launch doesn't seem to relate to anything, since it's after the fact and too late, but if it's so easy to detect, why don't we even know where all of Saddam's scuds are?
You clearly seem willing to put NY, DC, LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Dallas, and/or every other major city at risk to the next bin Laden who has enough money to buy a missile from a rogue nation. |
